I have many times, it’s a very bizarre experience.
You fall asleep with a second, and it feels like literally a min later they wake you up!
The surgery may have been hours but it feels like a min to you.
Sometimes I have seen things whilst under, other times it’s just blank - nothing.
They always wake you up in theatre to make sure you’re ok, but you don’t remember at all.
Then they wake you in recovery.
Strange
According to Brown, anesthetic drugs cause brain circuits to change their oscillation patterns in particular ways, thereby preventing neurons in different brain regions from communicating with each other. The result is a loss of consciousness—an unnatural state that he compares to a “reversible coma”—that differs from sleep. The oscillations vary, he explains, based on the type and amount of anesthetic used and the age of the patient’s brain (since brains age at different rates).
The EEG of someone under anesthesia looks quite distinct from any of the normal brain states (stage 1, stage 2, REM, or slow wave sleep). If anesthesia is deep enough, you see a pattern on EEG called burst suppression, which means bursts of electrical activity interspersed with periods where activity is almost completely suppressed. If anesthesia is deep enough, the bursts disappear completely.
https://eegatlas-online.com/index.php/en/alphabetical-index/burst-suppression-guest
Yeah it's weird, woozy and strange once you're first awake, like being drunk or on drugs.
Dogs are funny too. Mosha has been under twice. Both times she was quite sleepy & stumbly when I went to pick her up, and she took a poop on the floor as soon as the nurse put her down 😂 It wasn't so funny when she got home and had no bladder control for a few hours 😬
